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agesboy posted...

wolfy42 posted...

How many times did you replay FF3(6) or Chrono Trigger or Super Metroid or forget it there are just too many to mention. SNES was god.

never, and I imagine most people have never replayed them either. except maybe super metroid because it's a different genre and a short game

I never played Super Metroid at all, and I only played Chrono Trigger once because I never enjoyed it as much as I did Chrono Cross (which I played multiple times, and even used Time's Scar as the theme for one of my tabletop RPG characters back in the late 90s).

But I played FFIII/FFVI about a dozen times. And then I bought the Final Fantasy Anthology on the PS1 and played it another half-dozen times. And if not for the fact that I dislike digital-only games and the pixel remasters, I'd probably buy FFVI (and FFIV) for the PS4 and play them again today.

On the other hand, my only real interaction with Phantasy Star at all was making fun of my one friend who was the only person in my peer circle who owned a Genesis, for attempting to claim it was as good as Final Fantasy. And he mostly agreed with me, and then came over my house to play FFIV and FFVI. Phantasy Star as a setting/franchise just never appealed to me, even when it became more accessible. Ironically, part of the turn-off for me was the sci-fi elements - which is ultimately what helped turn me off Final Fantasy as well once that series decided it wanted to go hard in the paint on its own sci-fi elements.

The go-to RPG I'd point to if I wanted to defend the Genesis would be Lunar (even if it technically wasn't the Genesis as much as it was the Sega CD). Lunar mostly suffered because Sega half-assed the platform it was on, but the later PS1 port showed what it could have been if it had been better supported.